This is the documentation for RHQ 4.8

The RHQ project is a systems management suite that provides extensible and integrated systems management for multiple products and platforms across a set of core features such as:

monitoring and graphing of values

alerting on error conditions

remote configuration of managed resources

remote operation execution

provisioning of software onto managed machines

detection of changed files

The project is designed with layered modules that provide a flexible architecture for deployment. It delivers a core user interface that provides audited and historical management across an entire enterprise.

A Server/Agent architecture provides remote management and plugins implement all specific support for managed products.

RHQ is an open source project licensed under the GPL, with some pieces individually licensed under a dual GPL/LGPL license to facilitate the integration with extended packages (now included in RHQ) and Embedded Jopr.

RHQ is also the main upstream community project for the JBoss Operations Network product, a key component of Red Hat's JBoss managed offerings.